Grant Loucks

December 31, 1932 – January 6, 2025

Grant Loucks died on January 6 at the age of 92 in Pacific Palisades, one day before the devastating Palisades fire broke out.

Grant was the retired president and co-owner of Alan Gordon Enterprises (AGE). He joined AGE in 1952 as a camera technician, at just 19 years of age, and built the company over decades.

Grant and his wife settled in Pacific Palisades in 1981, more than 40 years ago, and he never tired of regaling friends and family with the virtues of his beautiful home, community and state.

Grant was a loyal and avid reader of the Palisadian-Post and was featured in its pages on several occasions. When his daughter, Julia, was a youngster, Grant volunteered as the traffic safety officer at her neighborhood school, Marquez Elementary.

Raised in Hollywood, Grant was a lifelong enthusiast and booster of the motion picture industry. At the time of his death, he had built Alan Gordon Enterprises into a major worldwide supplier of the variety of equipment used in the industry from cameras to viewfinders, lighting and grip.

Grant’s tenure at AGE was interrupted for two years during which he served in the U.S. Army. Stationed in Alaska, he was trained as a Combat Cameraman. In 1976, following the death of Alan Gordon, Grant bought the company with partners Bob Kuhagen and Don Sahlein.

Grant was a Hollywood kid from beginning to the end. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. He received two Technical Achievement Awards. In 1988, he received an award for the design concept of the Image 300, 35-mm High-Speed Motion Picture Camera. In 1996, he received his second award for the Mark V Director’s Viewfinder.

Grant was an avid collector of artifacts, cameras and equipment relating to the history of motion pictures and donated important historic film equipment. His collection included a Technicolor Three-Strip Camera, which is known to have been used in the 1939 filming of “Gone with the Wind.”

Grant was also an accomplished woodworker who enjoyed his garage home workshop. He created an heirloom infant cradle, toys and many special commemorative items for his family. His grandson Eric inherited this passion, and now teaches woodworking technique and design.

Scenic road trips and Los Angeles driving tours were among Grant’s favorite pastimes. Visitors to his home were often treated to day tours of Hollywood and nighttime tours of the Pacific Palisades’ spectacular holiday lights. He and his wife also traveled widely to Africa, Europe and Asia. Grant was also an active member of the American Society of Cinematographers, a Dodger season ticket holder and an LA Philharmonic subscriber.

He is survived by his wife, Judith Bronowski, his sons Glenn and Wayne, daughter Julia, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. His family and friends already miss him a lot.